He presently acts as plaintiff’s counsel in the following mass tort and class action litigation:

• Mass tort 2017 Las Vegas shooting lead with more than 200 death and injury cases
• Mass tort Northern California and Southern California wild fires (represented 180 + clients and all burn downs)
• Class actions on defective copper pipe cases for product defect (over 15 class actions)
• Class action wage hour reporting time issue (over 10 class actions)
• Wrongful death construction and train-related accidents (largest death recovery in Placentia Yorba Linda train crash)

Mr. Bridgford also represents individuals and businesses in breach of contracts, business/commercial fraud, construction defect, construction delay, real estate contracts, real estate fraud, and broker/finder actions. Beyond his extensive experience as an Orange County personal injury lawyer, he has handled high value estates (beneficiary/trustee disputes), insurance bad faith and coverage, unfair competition, trade secrets/intellectual property, wrongful termination, and high value car accidents. Liability exposure on these cases has ranged from $500,000 to $13.5 billion dollars.

He graduated from Stanford undergrad with a B.A. in Economics and a perfect GPA in 1982 and Stanford Law School in 1985. Before starting his firm, he was an attorney at Paul Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in the firm’s Los Angeles and Orange County offices as well as Hamilton & Samuels in Newport Beach. Prior to his work in private practice, he was an extern in the White House Office of Legal Counsel in Washington, D.C.

LEGAL EXPERIENCE:

Representing both plaintiff and defense, Mr. Bridgford has handled numerous trials, arbitrations, mediations, appeals and pre-litigation dispute involving:

• breach of contracts
• partnership disputes
• business/commercial fraud
• construction defect
• construction delay
• real estate contracts
• real estate fraud
• broker/finder
• estates (beneficiary/trustee disputes)
• insurance bad faith and coverage
• unfair competition
• trade secrets/intellectual property
• wrongful termination
• personal injury claims
• public utility litigation

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND AWARDS:

• 2022 U.S. News Best Lawyers
• Pacific Symphony Board Member
• Board of Trustees UCI
• 2014 Man of Character Award, Boy Scouts of America
• 2011 American Diabetes Association Father of the Year Award
• 2009 National Philanthropy Foundation Award for Orange County
• University of California, Irvine Foundation, Board Member
• University of California, Irvine School of Law, Chair of Deans Advisory Board
• University of California, Irvine School of Law, Board of Visitors
• Civil Justice Research Initiative at UC Irvine School of Law, Founding Member
• Orange County Second Harvest Food Bank, Board Member
• St. Jude Hospital, President’s Circle member
• The Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation
• Our Lady Queen of Angels Parish Building Fund
• Urban Compass